Glen Ridge track teams compete at Group Championships

Members of the Glen Ridge boys and girls varsity track and field teams were in action at the Group 1 Championship Meet this past weekend. No Ridgers advanced to the Meet of Champions, but they all finished with decent marks to end the season.

The Glen Ridge 4x100m relay team races in the Group 1 Championship Meet this past weekend. Owen Tuck is about to hand off the baton to teammate Justin Dignan (foreground). They finished the race in 45.84 seconds.

Both 4x100m relay teams (boys and girls) were in action and took 19th and 12th place, respectively. The boys team (consisting of junior Brandon Webster and sophomores Justin Dignan, Owen Tuck and Teandre Russell-Rose) finished in 45.84 seconds

The girls team of Lizza Waugh, Rosa Moss, Lulu Sollohub and Victoire Omou finished the race in 52.22.

The only other event the boys team was competing in was the long jump. Webster earned a distance of 18 feet, inches to take 20th overall.

Lizza Waugh improved upon both of her Sectional Meet times in the 100 and 200m dashes. Waugh finished the 100m in 13.2 seconds (22nd overall). In the 200m, she finished in 17th with a time of 27.19 seconds.

Senior Matea Mills-Andruk raced in the 800m run and took 22nd with a time of 2:39.05.

Sectional Meet Results

The girls team won four medals while the boys team won two at the NJSIAA North 2, Group 1 Sectional Championship meet this past weekend. Those who placed in the top six in each event at the Sectionals will move on to the Group 1 Meet.

After finishing the 100 meter dash preliminary round in 13.41 seconds, junior Lizza Waugh took third place, overall in the final heat with a time of 13.49 seconds. Also competing in the 100m dash were teammates Lulu Sollohub (a sophomore), who ran a 14.23 for 20th overall and freshman Victoire Omou, who finished in 14.17 to place 19th.

Waugh also won a medal in the 200 meter dash. She finished in 27.38 seconds to place fourth overall. Omou also ran in the 200m and wasn't too far from placing. She tied for 11th overall with a time of 28.99 seconds.

Matea Mills-Andruk continued her senior season by placing sixth in the 800 meter run to just make the cut to the Group 1 Title Meet. She finished in 2:31.55 to earn sixth.

In the same 800m event, senior Ashley Kulik and junior Rosa Moss finished back-to-back in 12th and 13th place. Kulik finished in 2:39.97 and Moss ran a time of 2:40.02.

The girls team's final medal came in the 4 x 100 meter relay event. The team of Lizza Waugh, Rosa Moss, Lulu Sollohub and Victoire Omou finished the race in 53.48 seconds to take fifth overall.

The Ridgers also had good times that didn't make the cut to Groups. Mills-Andruk ran a 6:05.35 in the 1600m run – good for 14th. In the same race, junior Hannah Chodosh finished in 6:26.43 to take 19th.

Moss took 12th overall in the 400 meter dash, with a time of 1:05.31.

The boys team captured two medals, but had quite a few performances that just missed out on advancing to Groups.

Glen Ridge won a second place medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay. The team of junior Brandon Webster and sophomores Justin Dignan, Owen Tuck and Teandre Russell-Rose finished in 45 seconds flat.

The boys' other medal-winning performance came in the long jump event. Junior Brandon Webster jumped for 19 feet, 10.25 inches. He finished in third, overall.

Owen Tuck just missed out on a medal in the 100 meter dash. He placed seventh overall with a time of 11.76 seconds in the final heat. In the preliminary heats, Russell-Rose finished in 11.85 seconds (11th) and junior Cooper Mason took 20th with a time of 12.5 seconds.

Webster also just missed in the discus event. He took seventh overall with a distance of 109 feet, four inches.

Tuck and Russell-Rose finished back-to-back in seventh and eighth place in the 200m dash.